The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-15
ISABEL'S BUSY DAY.
How Billy Baked and Bell Found
q Husband.

'I've made pretty good afternoons
work of it," said the city boarder.
. You never would have known her
for the elegant young lady that danced
In 1.-THE german" at DIR. Fay's last
winter-for the slight girl who took the
part of "Juliet" in the private theatric-
ais that were gotten up to help build
the new hospital for the dignifed
; teacher in the Middle Grade of the
Thirdly Grammar School. She wore
/ Aunt Rhoda's Shaker bonnet, with q
brown ribbon tied under her chin, a
! tiny checked shawl crossed Oh her
breast, and dark red calico gown.
|. uttoned with sober little circlets of
= hother-of-pearl, and she was seated in
. mud-splashed country wagon, driv-
ing. probably. the oldest horse in the
county. with an assortment of gray
stone jars and wicker-lidded baskets,
/ packed in wilted grass, behind her.
For Aunt Rhoda had sprained her
wrist. and Bell Barlow had volunteered
TO drive to Bannport and carry the
4 weekly assortment of farm produce to
the good old lady's customers who
dwelt therein.
"It'll be a dreadful accommodation
to me-" said Aunt Rhoda; because the
spring chickens won't bring broiler
/ prices after this week, and the egg
won't never be no fresher; and the
June buffers packed to the very top of
ne crock. and the Falkners use pow
erful sight O. butter. And Old Billy,
he won't run away nor nothin', and it :
|. jest pleasant day. work for spr.
gal like you, Miss Barlow"
So Isabel Barlow set forth on this I'M
accustomed task, remembering that
Iyshe also desired To match a skein OF
olive-green silk, purchase few postage
stamps. and buy some chlorate of pot
nash lozenges against next Sunday
polo in the choir.
"And here's the handbook" said
the old lady. busting out after Bell
was safely enthroned on the buffalo
|'obe-covered seat. Il couldn't give it
a. you afore, because / don't want
Ephraim to know I've got money out
1t interest He'd want to squander it
mp in swappin' OK teams and buyin'
eRtery tickets. There's twenty dol
ars that Mrs. Timms paid me for the
bid red cow. Ephraim don't even
know she's sold. He reckons she's
put TO pasture somewhere. And the
en- dollars got for blackberries and
.lder-berries, and what you'll gather
ogether to-day, Miss Bell-and II
Fou'n bank il, I'll be ever so mucii
obliged. faint out of your way, or
Wouldn't make so bold"
1t was long, snItry, summers day
he customers WEI. hard to find ami
difficult to suit, an, the city BOARDED
inaliy concluded that dealings IL
@garden sass and .uck" were not a
together producti,. of bliss. But AZ
'ame to an end At last, and Bell
danced up at the square steeple of the
I'D Town Hall, where glittering
ass face contained the record of the
ours, that were marked off by a pair
monster black hands.
TOO late for banking hours" she
aid to herself IF that old Mrs.
alkner, who keeps the Mechanics
boarding House. hadn't detained me
p long in making change. Well.
ever mind. shall have to take the
oney all home again to Mrs. Jen-
ms"
Better put them bills in some safe
ACE" shrilly counseled Mrs. Falkner.
no. being deaf herself, generally adj
ressed other people at the top of her
pice. Its long ride home through
le Black Swamp for lone woman,
Re you, with all that money"
~ man smoking pipe on the steps
II Sied to stare at the city boarder at
ese words. Two half-grown lads
fused in their discussion of the base
III question and listened. Bell
arrow felt the color rise uneasily to
n cheek.
at is all right" she said. putting the
d leather handbook, with its fat in
osure of bills and small coin, into the
Pcket of the madder-red calico gown,
I'D securing the orifice with a deity
serted pin. And she drove away as
st as she could, uttering within her
III the exultant sentence wherewith
is chronicle commences.
But Old Billy was tired and stiff, and
u found the sunset fading into
Hight while she was yet within the
nereal shade of the Black Swamp, a
small stretch of woods through which
road had been built, where two teams
uld barely pass. Night birds called